BYRNE, Eugene Gerald
(Service number 2107)
| First Rank | Private | Last Rank | Private |
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Birth
| Date | *1886 | Place of Birth | Timaru |
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Enlistment Information
| Date | 23 March 1915 | Age | 31 years 6 months |
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| Occupation | Labourer | ||
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| Marital Status | Single | ||
| Next of Kin | Mrs K. BYRNE (mother), Andersons Bay, Dunedin | ||
Military Service
| Served with | Australian Imperial Force | Served in | Army |
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Embarkation Information
| Body on Embarkation | 6th Reinforcement | ||
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| Unit, Squadron, or Ship | 15th Battalion | ||
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| Transport | Karoola | ||
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| Last Unit Served With | Machine Gun Company | ||
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Award Circumstances and Date
No information
Prisoner of War Information
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Death
| Date | 18 August 1923 | Age | |
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| Place of Death | Wentworth Falls, New South Wales | ||
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| Memorial or Cemetery | Katoomba Cemetery, Katoomba, New South Wales. Memorial on parents' headstone Andersons Bay Cemetery, Dunedin | ||
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Biographical Notes
Eugene Gerald Byrne, known as Gerald, was born in 1886 at Timaru, the eldest son of Arthur Maginnis and Catherine (née Langan) Byrne. He was probably educated at Invercargill South School and Invercarghill Marist School. He enlisted with the Australian Imperial Force on 23 March 1915 at Brisbane, Queensland. A labourer, 31 years 6 months old, and single, he named his mother as nexr-of-kin – Mrs K. Byrne, Andersons Bay, Dunedin. Eugene was a stockman at Bonus Downs, Maranoa, Queensland in 1914. E. G. Byrne was one of the soldiers whosephotographs were published in The Queenslander Pictorial in 1915. He died on 18 August 1923 at Wentworth Falls, New South Wales, and was buried at Katoomba Cemetery, Katoomba, New South Wales, where his grave is marked by a services stone. His death may have been as a consequence of his war service – “For the Empire’s Cause”. He is remembered on his parents’ headstone in Andersons Bay Cemetery, Dunedin. His father had died suddenly in 1912, and his mother in 1946.
Sources
Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [30 March 2020]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [13 April 2020]; Australia Death Index [13 August 2020]; Australia Electoral Roll (ancestry.com.au) [15 April 2020]; Andersons Bay Cemetery headstone image (Dunedin City Council) [15 April 2020]; Find A Grave [15 April 2020]; Evening Star, 22 august 1923, Otago Daily Times, 23 August 1923 (Papers Past) [23 April 2020]
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